Giant Latin American mobile content provider Movile has tapped former senior Apple designer Everaldo Coelho in a bid to expand its reach in the worldwide Latino market. Coelho is joining Movile as Head of UX (User Experience) after serving as a senior visual and interactive designer at Apple. Globally, Movile has 50 million users across all its products. Setting up shop in Silicon Valley, Movile launched Zeewe TV in the U.S. in June where it quickly amassed 1 million users its first month.

Mexico and Venezuela plan to resume oil shipments to Nicaragua, which were suspended two years ago, according to Mexican government officials and Latin American diplomats here.The Mexican decision comes after what appears to be a significant reduction by the Soviet Union in its oil shipments to the government of Nicaragua.Mexico suspended regular shipments of petroleum products to Nicaragua in March 1985. At the time, both Mexico and Venezuela said the oil supplies were being cut because Nicaragua was in arrears in its payments and owed about $500 million to its Latin America suppliers.

Central Florida is making a play for the pocketbooks of Latin American tourists.The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau announced Wednesday that it will roll out a marketing campaign next month in Brazil and Argentina to promote Orlando malls, stores and shopping centers.The centerpiece of the campaign will be a brochure - printed in Portuguese and Spanish - that details shopping at the Altamonte Mall, Belz Designer Outlet Centre, Belz Factory Outlet World, Florida Mall, Lake Buena Vista Factory Stores, Orlando International Airport, Pointe Orlando and Saks Fifth Avenue.

DELTONA - Parents are invited to attend Deltona Middle School's annual Latin American Festival on Friday afternoon.More than 650 students will participate in the festivities from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the school, 250 Enterprise Road.The event will include booths on 16 countries, art projects, music, dance lessons, theater performances and ethnic food. A local Latin American band will perform as part of the grand finale.Parents are welcome to volunteer with the activities or help with clean up. For details, contact Deltona Middle teacher Roger Billings at (407)

A free symposium on ''Freedom and Repression of the Press in Latin America'' will be offered by the Rollins College Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Program at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Bush Science Center auditorium on the Rollins campus in Winter Park.Speakers will include Don Bohning, chief of the Latin American/Caribbean desk of The Miami Herald and Robert Cox, former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald.The symposium is co-sponsored by Rollins and the Florida Endowment for the Humanities.

WASHINGTON -- Facing congressional opposition to his Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, President Bush will meet next week with leaders from the six Latin American countries that would be included. The White House said Monday that the president would meet May 12 with the presidents of Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Large commercial banks, investment banking firms and the U.S. Treasury Department are in the process of gang-raping the American people.It is axiomatic in the 20th century that while large money-center banks never share their profits with the American taxpayers, they inevitably figure out a way to dump their losses on the taxpayers.The savings and loan bailout is nothing more than a process by which the liabilities of savings and loan pirates are transferred to the American taxpayer. This caper is already saddling Americans with a new $160 billion of debt that will be bled from future generations by taxation.

Latin American countries have surged into a long-awaited economic recovery and need to spread the benefits of renewed growth more equally, says the Inter-American Development Bank. Rising rates of production growth, domestic demand and capital flowing in from abroad have marked the recovery, the bank said in the annual report released Sunday. Political stability won't be maintained ''if explicit and urgent attention is not directed to the region's immense and long-neglected problems of poverty,'' said the bank.

It may be one of the most common tropical diseases you've never heard of. But if you emigrated from an impoverished neighborhood in South and Central America, you need to discuss Chagas disease with a doctor, Florida health officials say. Having lived in poor communities of that area of the hemisphere could mean you have the deadly parasitic disease and don't know it, even years after moving to the Sunshine State. A May 29 editorial published in the Public Library of Science's journal, "Neglected Tropical Diseases," referred to Chagas as "the new AIDS of the Americas" because of similarities with the early days of HIV in how it's contracted.

Netflix and Buenos Aries-based Telefilms Tuesday announced a new multi-year deal to make "Hunger Games" and other pics available to Netflix subscribers starting this summer in Latin America and Brazil. Through Telefilms, a major indie distributor in the region, Netflix will get some films four months after their theatrical premiere. Netflix has been in Latin America for nine months and has more than one million subscribers there. "We are excited to now have such a fantastic flow of commercially successful and critically-acclaimed films for our members in the region," said Ted Sarandos, Netflix chief content officer.

ANNECY -- Eduardo Sacheri, co-scribe on Juan Jose Campanella's Academy Award-winning "The Secret in Their Eyes," is writing a treatment for "Foosball 2," a sequel to "Foosball 3D," Campanella's flagship Latin American animated feature. Now in advanced production, "Foosball 3D" was presented Wednesday at Annecy's Work in Progress strand. Campanella, who co-wrote "Secret," adapting Sacheri's novel, said he will produce but had not decided whether to helm "Foosball 2. " Sequel's story would reprise the table football figures which come to life, helping a young boy to save his village in "Foosball," Campanella said.

MADRID -- Swooping on one of 2011's most talked-about Latin American debuts, Aquelarre Servicios Cinematograficos has acquired Spanish rights to Santiago Mitre's "The Student. " A pacy Argentine college politics thriller, "Student" -- which won the top prize and actor kudos (Esteban Lamothe) at Leida's Catalonia Latin-American Film Festival Friday, will be released second-half August, said Aquelarre's Luis Angel Bellaba. Spanish-language and a multi-prized fest fave, "Student" looks like a natural release in Spain . "The film deals with one of Spain's biggest issues: Corruption," said Bellaba.

MADRID -- Thierry Lenouvel's Paris -based Cine-Sud Promotion is driving ever more deeply into Latin American production as it boards Colombian helmer Ruben Mendoza's "Dust on the Tongue" as co-producer. The helmer's third feature, which turns on the confrontation between two grandsons and their dying grandfather (Variety, Nov. 24), is lead-produced by Bogota's Diafragma, headed by Mendoza and Daniel Garcia. The film rolled Feb. 7 on Colombia's Eastern Plains. As co-producer, Cine-Sud can put up equity, guide less-experienced producers, tap world cinema funds, position films for pix-in-post showcases and festivals, and push through French distribution.

People of Japanese ancestry who were taken from Latin American nations against their will and detained in U.S. camps during World War II plan to file suit this week seeking an apology and reparations. In addition to the estimated 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were held in camps, the Roosevelt administration ordered the detention of more than 2,200 people of Japanese ancestry from 13 Latin American countries. Most were from Peru. A group of the former detainees plans to file a suit in federal court this week in Washington.

WASHINGTON -- Roger Noriega, ambassador to the Organization of American States, has been confirmed by the Senate as the State Department's top official for Latin American affairs. He is the first appointee for that post to receive Senate confirmation since former Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Davidow received the Senate's blessing in 1996. President Bush's first choice for the post, Otto Reich, failed to receive Senate confirmation and was given a recess appointment that expired last fall.

The Boy Scouts of America are adding a Spanish-language ad campaign to their efforts of recruiting more Latinos into their ranks. Their slogan for the campaign: "M-!Al que buen M-Frbol se arrima, buena sombra le cobija!" That's a Spanish-language saying that roughly goes: "He who gets close to a good tree will enjoy good shade." This is the kind of proverb that Latin American parents (mothers, in particular) used to tell their children that they need to hang out with "the good bunch," explains author Mark Glazer in A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs.